Gain-Enhanced metamaterial absorber-loaded monopole antenna for reduced radar cross-section and back radiationopen access
- Authors
- Jeong H.; Kim Y.; Tentzeris M.M.; Lim S.
- Issue Date
- Mar-2020
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Keywords
- Back radiation reduction; High gainmonopole antenna; Metamaterial absorber; RCS reduction
- Citation
- Materials, v.13, no.5
- Journal Title
- Materials
- Volume
- 13
- Number
- 5
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/cau/handle/2019.sw.cau/38467
- DOI
- 10.3390/ma13051247
- ISSN
- 1996-1944
1996-1944
- Abstract
- This paper proposes a gain-enhanced metamaterial (MM) absorber-loaded monopole antenna that reduces both radar cross-section and back radiation. To demonstrate the proposed idea, we designed a wire monopole antenna and an MM absorber. The MM absorber comprised lumped elements of subwavelength unit cells and achieved 90% absorbance bandwidth from 2.42-2.65 GHz. For low-profile configurations, theMMabsorber was loaded parallel to and 10mmfrom the monopole antenna, corresponding to 0.09 λ0 at 2.7 GHz. The monopole antenna resonated at 2.7 GHz with a 3.71 dBi peak gain and 2.65 GHz and 6.46 dBi peak gain, before and after loading the MM absorber, respectively. Therefore, including the MM absorber increased peak gain by 2.7 dB and reduced back radiation by 15 dB. The proposed antenna radar cross-section was reduced by 2 dB compared with a monopole antenna with an artificial magnetic conductor. © 2020 by the authors.
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